This Movie’s ‘Lingo’ Is Part Of Daily Conversation

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A recent study of British and American texts has found that “Star Wars” lingo is now a part of common speech.

Phrases like “Jedi mind trick” and “the dark side” seem to require little to no explanation. People also routinely use words like: Yoda; Jedi; Padawan; and lightsaber.

One-third of these uses were found to be unrelated to the films, which means even people who have never seen Star Wars understand the lingo.

“This study shows Star Wars is inescapable – even if you haven’t seen it, you know about it and it’s in the language, and we can all understand what many of the words mean,” Professor Sanchez-Stockhammer from Chemnitz University of Technology said.

“Yoda” has been in the dictionary since 2016.

SOURCE: Daily Mail